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ne sign that summer will soon be winding down is Halloween decorations showing up in stores. I first saw them this year right after the Fourth of July, which I’m sure most people agree is “rushing the season,” commercially.

But by late August those of us whose favorite time of year is Fall begin to joyfully look forward to that first, delicious moment we sense Nature’s seasonal transition. For me, it can’t come too soon.

Meanwhile, everyone scrambles to make the most of the remaining time for all their favorite summer activities — like keeping up their suntan, making ice cream, visiting a favorite swimming hole, playing croquet with the neighbors. Or lying in the backyard hammock, sipping lemonade and reading a book.

A Moody Blues’ hit song in 1968 contained the lyrics “...thinking is the best way to travel.” Maybe there is still time this summer for one more trip — even if it’s just reading a book, taking a quick local day trip or an adventure taking place entirely inside your head.

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Changing seasons and end-ofsummer travel. technology, consider signing up for one of my son Perry’s Virtual Reality demo sessions Aug 27-28 (see page 5).

I have been hearing about VR for quite a long time from Perry — who would be considered an “early adopter” of technology. While many of us resist

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it, he embraces the next new thing.

His VR unit, the HTC Vive, creates a 360-degree video sphere around you and lets you interact with your hands and physically walk around in the space.

He offered somewhat primitive demos a couple of years ago. I wasn’t too impressed by the cartoon-ish graphics.

But now, the “next generation” of VR devices and software has hit the consumer market. With the latest equipment, the experience has improved by leaps and bounds.

Besides famous travel destinations, your personal demo could include 3D painting in tilt brush, visiting a medieval castle with a longbow or an asteroid field orbiting an alien planet. I was transported to an English churchyard, with its old world surroundings, stone paths to explore, and birds flying overhead.

However you choose to fill the remaining days of summer, we wish you happy travels. Fall is around the corner. Hurrah!

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What is this man doing?

We think he’s attempting to timetravel to the future from the middle of Commerce Avenue. Perhaps he’s looking for the Columbia River Reader office, hoping to participate in CRR’s Downtown Longview Summer Walkabout. Watch for him to “appear” and join the fun Friday, Aug. 26, 4–7pm for a fun opportunity to explore Downtown Longview’s shops, restaurants and outdoor sculptures. Enter the prize drawing and enjoy mixing and mingling with friends and neighbors. See details, page 9.

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Letter to the Editor

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Besides CRR...What Are You Reading?

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Lewis & Clark: You’re gonna need a smaller boat

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Miss Manners

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Biz Buzz

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Cover to Cover ~ Book Review / Bestsellers List

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Wellness: Tips for Hikers

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Northwest Wines ~ Capstone Cellars Founders Pass the Torch

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On Our Mountain / Ranger Reflections

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Out & About ~ Seattle’s Great Wheel

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Out & About ~ Surf Perch Fishing

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Where Do You Read the Reader?

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Columbia River Chamber Music Festival

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Art in the Park

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Life on the River: Oscar the osprey gets a new home

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Columbia River Dining Guide

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Man in the Kitchen ~ Pork Roast on the Grill

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Movie Reviews by Dr. Bob Blackwood

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Lower Columbia Informer ~ Bocce Ball

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The Spectator ~ It’s all in the family

Access the current issue, Dining Guide and Columbia River Reader Past Issue Archives (from January 2013), under “Features.”

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Letter to the Editor Farewell to Toshi Sato We lost a friend and fellow haiku judge July 29. I got the word while in Tokyo that Toshi Sato had passed away, private and stoic to the end. We had planned on having lunch last week but got a text message the night before: “Sorry. Unable to meet for lunch – sick.”

In Fond Memory

We all have our own stories about Toshi but a single common thread links them all: “ The kindest and most caring gentleman.”

There is a timeless essay titled“A True Gentleman” by John Walter Wayland which came about as the result of a contest in The Baltimore Sun in 1899.

The essay later found its way to the Naval Academy and was printed in the Midshipman handbook, “Reef Points” (may still be read there). I learned of the essay years ago and always remembered it as describing our friend, Toshi Sato, to a T. It’s appropriate too, to make our own contribution to Toshi’s memory.

What better than a haiku to mark the sad occasion. Toshi added sincerity and authenticity to our little group.

He was always self-deprecating and often concerned that he might screw up because he wasn’t a professional “haikuist” like the rest of us. I always responded with, “Are you kidding me?!

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The True Gentleman The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.

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Lewis & Clark

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ne of the more memorable lines in the 1975 movie ”Jaws” was Police Chief Martin Brody telling Quint, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Lewis and Clark had the opposite problem. As the Corps of Discovery traveled up the Missouri River, they would have to abandon their large boats as the river grew shallower.

Dugout canoes replaced the larger boats and were unstable and would not carry much of a load. Captain Lewis foresaw this problem in 1803 while making plans for the expedition.

He designed what came to be called “The Experiment.” The federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, built a

portable iron boat frame that Lewis believed could be covered with buffalo hides and used to carry provisions when the water became too shallow for the heavy wooden boats.

While no drawings exist, records indicate the assembled boat was 36 feet long and 4-1/2 feet wide. The frame was made of wrought iron ribs that could be assembled with screws. According to Lewis’ description, there were two designs used for the individual sections: “one curved, or in the shape necessary for the stem and stern, the other simicilindrical, or in the form of those sections which constitute the body of the canoe.”

There were a total of eight sections, each about 4-1/2 feet long, that could be fastened together to make the boat frame. Each section weighed 22 pounds, for a total of 176 pounds of iron. The total weight of the iron, hides, wood, and bark needed for entire boat would be 500 pounds.

Joseph Perkins and Meriwether Lewis inspecting the iron boat frame built at Harpers Ferry in 1803.

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In a letter to President Jefferson from Fort Mandan, Lewis wrote, “Our baggage is all embarked on board six small canoes and two pirogues: we shall set out at the same moment that we dispatch the” keelboat back to St. Joseph Field, Meriwether Lewis, Patrick Gass, and John Louis. “One or perhaps, both of these Shields work on covering the boat frame with hides. pirogues we shall leave at the falls of Artwork by Keith Rocco, courtesy Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. the Missouri, from whence we intend continuing our voyage in the canoes and a perogue of skins, the frame of which was prepared at Harper’s Ferry. This perogue is now in a situation which will enable us to prepare it in the course of a few hours.”

As Lewis planned, the men buried the red pirogue in a cache near the mouth of Maria’s river on June 9th, and placed the white pirogue in a cache at Great Falls two weeks later. However, Lewis drastically underestimated the time required to assemble the portable boat.

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present Installment 15 of Michael Perry’s popular 33-month series which began with CRR’s April 15, 2004 inaugural issue. During the 2004-2007 Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, each installment covered their travels 200 years prior. We are repeating the series for the enjoyment of both longtime and more recent readers. To find prior installments visit crreader.com Click “Features,” then “Archives.”

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His popular 33-installment Lewis & Clark series appeared i n C R R ’s early years and began an “encore” appearance in July 2015.

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assemble the iron boat. Lewis wrote, “I readily perceive difficulties in preparing the leather boat which are the want of convenient and proper timber; bark, skins, and above all that of pitch to pay [seal] her seams, a deficiency that I really know not how to surmount…” The frame was quickly assembled while the skins from 28 elk and four buffalo were prepared to cover it.

With the final portage around Great Falls completed, construction of the iron boat was delaying the expedition.

While Lewis tried to find a source of pitch, the men shaved the hair off the elk skins. Attempts to extract pitch from pine logs that had floated down from the mountains failed.

Without pitch or tar, Lewis wrote, “I fear the whole operation of my boat will be useless.”

The hides were sewn together and then attached to the iron framework.

On July 4th, Lewis wrote, “I fear I have committed another blunder also in sewing the skins with a nedle which has sharp edges, these have cut the skin and as it drys I discover that the throng dose not fill the holes as I expected.” Using a round needle might have prevented the gaping holes.

A day later Lewis wrote, “This morning I had the boat removed to an open situation, scaffold her off the ground, turned her keel to the sun and kindled fires under her to dry her more expediciously.

I set a couple of men to pounding of charcoal to form a composition with some beeswax which we have and buffaloe tallow now my only hope and resource for paying my boat; I sincerely hope it may answer yet I feel it will not. The boat in every other rispect completely answers my most sanguine expectation; she is not yet dry and eight men carry her with the greatest ease; she is strong and will carry at least 8,000 lbs.”

On July 8th, Lewis wrote “The boat was sufficiently dry to receive a coat of the composition which I accordingly applied.

This adds very much to her appearance whether it will be effectual or not.”

That evening, Patrick Gass wrote in his journal, “We called her The Experiment and expect she will answer our purpose.” The next day, when they “launched the boat, she lay like a perfect cork on the water.” But by evening they “discovered that a greater part of the composition had separated from the skins and left the seams of the boat exposed to the water and she leaked in such a manner that she would not answer.”

Lewis wrote that the failure of the Experiment “mortified me not a little.”

He “found that the section formed of the buffaloe hides on which some hair had been left, answered much the best purpose; this leaked but little and the parts which were well covered with hair about 1/8th of an inch in length retained the composition perfectly and remained sound and dry.” Shaving all the hair off the elk hides had resulted in nothing for the beeswax and tallow concoction to bond with, but it was too late to start over.

It took five more days to carve two additional dugout canoes from cottonwood trees located about 16 miles upstream. “The Experiment” had cost the expedition 12 days that would have been better spent traveling. They were far behind schedule and had given up all hope of making it to the Pacific Ocean and back to Fort Mandan by that winter.

The men removed the hides and put the iron frame in a cache above Great Falls. When the Corps returned a year later, Lewis found “the iron frame of the boat had not suffered materially.” There is no mention of what they did with the iron frame, but it is likely they left it there since it was of no value to the expedition other than to trade with Indians. To this day, nobody has ever found a trace of the iron boat frame.

The journey resumed on July 14th. A week later Lewis saw smoke, hoping that meant Indians were nearby.

When Sacajawea began to recognize familiar landmarks, everyone was encouraged. On July 27th, the expedition reached the headwaters of the Missouri at Three Forks, west of present-day Bozeman, Montana. This was where Sacajawea had been taken captive five years earlier, but there was no sign of her people. cont page 9

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Finally, on August 11th, they saw a lone Indian on horseback, the first Indian seen since leaving Fort Mandan four months earlier. Lewis tried to approach, but the Indian turned and galloped away.

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The next day they reached the Continental Divide (the border between Idaho and Montana) and found a spring they believed to be the highest source of water flowing into the Missouri. They crossed over a ridge at Lehmi pass and Lewis drank from a stream he assumed (incorrectly) to be the headwaters of the Columbia River.

Three more Indians were seen the next day, but they too turned and rode away. Lewis was frustrated; the fate of the expedition depended on obtaining horses from the Shoshone Indians to continue their journey over the Rocky Mountains. Later that day they saw three more Indians, and this time they managed to meet with two of them and set things in motion for a meeting with the leaders of the Shoshone tribe.

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1. The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins, Riverhead, $16 2. A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 3. The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George, Broadway, $16 4. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry Fredrik Backman, Washington Square Press, $16 5. The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen, Grove Press, $16 6. After You Jojo Moyes, Penguin, $16 7. Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf, Vintage, $15 8. Circling the Sun Paula McLain, Ballantine, $16 9. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, $17 10. The Girl in the Spider’s Web David Lagercrantz, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95

1. The Boys in the Boat Daniel James Brown, Penguin, $17 2. The Oregon Trail Rinker Buck, S&S, $16.99 3. Barbarian Days William Finnegan, Penguin, $17 4. Dead Wake Erik Larson, Broadway, $17 5. H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald, Grove Press, $16 6. The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery, Atria, $16 7. Modern Romance Aziz Ansari, Penguin, $17 8. You Are a Badass Jen Sincero, Running Press, $16 9. The Wright Brothers David McCullough, S&S, $17 10. Harry Potter Coloring Book Scholastic, $15.99

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Girls Emma Cline, Random House, $27 2. All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr, Scribner, $27 3. Heroes of the Frontier Dave Eggers, Knopf, $28.95 4. The Black Widow Daniel Silva, Harper, $27.99 5. Barkskins Annie Proulx, Scribner, $32 6. The Nightingale Kristin Hannah, St. Martin’s, $27.99 7. Truly Madly Guilty Liane Moriarty, Flatiron, $26.99, 9781250069795 8. The Woman in Cabin 10 Ruth Ware, Gallery/Scout Press, $26 9. Before the Fall Noah Hawley, Grand Central, $26 10. Before the Wind Jim Lynch, Knopf, $26.95

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Chuck Klosterman, Blue Rider, $26 8. Shoe Dog Phil Knight, Scribner, $29 9. Shrill Lindy West, Hachette, $26 10. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics Carlo Rovelli, Riverhead, $18

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1. A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 2. The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $8.99 3. A Clash of Kings George R.R. Martin, Bantam, $9.99 4. The Wise Man’s Fear Patrick Rothfuss, DAW, $9.99 5. The Aeronaut’s Windlass Jim Butcher, Roc, $9.99 6. Outlander Diana Gabaldon, Dell, $9.99 7. American Gods Neil Gaiman, HarperTorch, $7.99 8. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 9. Good Omens Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, HarperTorch, $7.99 10. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, Grand Central, $9.99

1. The BFG Roald Dahl, Puffin, $7.99 2. The Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99 3. Phoebe and Her Unicorn Dana Simpson, Andrews McMeel, $9.99 4. I’ll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson, Speak, $10.99 5. Pokemon Deluxe Essential Handbook Scholastic, $11.99, 6. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer Rick Riordan, Hyperion, $19.99 7. A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle, Square Fish, $6.99 8. Nerve Jeanne Ryan, Speak, $10.99 9. The War That Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, Puffin, $8.99 10. Pax Sara Pennypacker, Jon Klassen (Illus.), Balzer + Bray, $16.99

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BOOK REVIEW

By Alan Rose

Charmed out of one’s humanity

The Little Red Chairs

By Edna O’Brien Little, Brown and Company $27.

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nto the quiet Irish village of Cloonoila where nothing much ever happens comes Dr. Vladimir Dragan. Handsome, charismatic, and seductive, he presents himself as a holistic healer, and the townspeople become caught up in his aura and charm and mystery.

Edna O’Brien has been a highly respected novelist for decades. The author of The Country Girls trilogy and The Love Object, she typically writes about Ireland and the ordinary

lives of people living in Irish villages.

The Little Red Chairs, her first novel in ten years, is also set in an Irish village, but the book is a departure from the others in its darkness and in its tale of this enthralling, enchanting stranger who comes into their midst.

A number of the village’s women are drawn to “Dr. Vlad;” he seems everything their stable, steady (read: dull) husbands are not. Among them is Fidelma McBride. Beautiful, much younger than her husband, and deeply unsatisfied in her marriage, she falls under the doctor’s spell and intentionally becomes pregnant by him.

Then one of the staff at the local hotel, a young refugee named Mujo, short for Muhammed, recognizes Dragan as the “the beast of Bosnia,” a brutal war criminal who oversaw the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of Muslims, including Mujo’s family, in the war that engulfed Serbia and Bosnia in the nineties. The “holistic healer” is arrested and sent to the Hague to answer for his crimes.

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One thousand, three hundred and fifty-nine days of [the siege of Sarajevo.]

The human spirit is indomitable.

Such were the sentiments of outsiders who nevertheless could not imagine the carnage…Since then they had a celebration, a way of remembering, red chairs erected in our beloved city, your jewel as you called it. Yes, eleven thousand, five hundred and forty-one red chairs in commemoration of the fallen. It is said that tourists only begin to cry when they come upon the six hundred and forty-three little red chairs of dead children… ~ from The Little Red Chairs

Disgraced and physically as well as emotionally scarred, Fidelma escapes Ireland for London. There she finds a city of refugees, each of them bearing a personal story of horror, putting a human face to genocide (such a bland, bureaucratic word!) defining it in more visceral terms of mob mayhem, slaughter, and acts of unbelievable cruelty. As Fidelma hears these stories, her empathy and understanding increases because now she, too, is a kind of refugee.

O’Brien is in her eighties. In what may be her last work she also offers a cautionary tale for our time: Beware the demagogue, the strong, charismatic leader who can charm people out of their humanity. “You promised the earth, without meaning it. You promised the siege would be lifted, the shelling would stop and food and aid convoys would be allowed in, except none of that happened. It was a lie, but lies can be just as persuasive and palatable as truth in desperate times.”

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Northwest Wines

End of an era

Capstone Cellars founders pass the torch

By Marc Roland

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first met Joel McNelly, co-founder of Capstone Cellars, at Esther Shore Park inVancouver, Washington. He was pouring wine at a wine festival. Joel was very animated and excited to share his knowledge with me. As our conversation ended, he offered to sell me a small wine barrel and advised me to not start making wine commercially because, as he put it, ‘the way to make a small fortune in the wine business is to start with a large fortune.” I took it as a joke, but soon realized he was right, as I ignored the advice and plunged ahead with our own winery. We became fast friends and over the years have shared our experiences together.

Capstone Cellars was established in 2003 by Roy and Sandy Bays and Joel and Cathleen McNelly. The men worked together at Longview Fibre and together dreamed of having a winery. The plan was that Joel would build a building on his mother-in-law’s property and the winery would lease it and Roy would buy the initial winery equipment. Roy would be the winemaker/chemist and Joel would be in charge of sales and operating many aspects of the business.

Joel became an expert in barrel selection. I think Joel knew every barrel cooper in the world and his selections helped make Capstone wine a favorite. Another big factor in their Longview resident and former Kelso teacher Marc Roland started making wine in 2008 in his garage. He and his wife, Nancy, now operate Roland Wines at 1106 Florida Street, in Longview’s new “barrel district.” For wine tasting hours, call 360-846-7304.

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success was a relationship they forged with famed Yakima vineyard manager, Dick Boushey. Boushey fruit was highly sought after by every winemaker in the state. The Bays/McNelly partnership worked primarily because the couples all had defined roles and unique skill sets and they tried to stay out of each others’ way. Of course, there was the inevitable healthy tension in decision making that occurs in any creative endeavor, when it came time to blend the wine, or how many barrels they would buy for the upcoming harvest.

I came out to their Pacific Way winery for crush a few times and saw first-hand the energy and intensity of their work, Roy mixing up the yeast and testing the must, and Joel directing the crush pad with numerous volunteers.

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The wives were also very involved. Sandy kept the books, religiously making sure that all compliance issues were handled and Cathleen’s sense of style and hospitality added an elegance to events and wine tastings held at the winery and in the community. They all were focused on the goal to craft small lots of premium, complex wines that were distinctive. They won many gold medals for the wines over the years which proved the consistency and attention to detail in their winemaking. Over the 13 years, they crafted many fine wines including their flagship Sangiovese. They were able to coax out the black plum, bright cherry and crushed herbs that is so sought after in this variety. They also made merlot, cabernet sauvignon, syrah, several excellent red blends, and a some white wines. Of note, their lovely viognier.

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by Capstone Cellars to contribute to the community by hosting fundraising events and raising the quality of life in our area. Their plans include moving

the winery to their property in Rose Valley and taking the winery to the next level of growth and quality. I can’t wait to see what they do.

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ON OUR MOUNTAIN

MT. ST. HELENS

RANGER REFLECTIONS

The straight poop on bears

By Todd Cullings

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lack Bears once roamed amongst the giant firs and the lush meadows surrounding Mount St. Helens, until they met their demise on May 18, 1980. Initially, bears returned as specific foods emerged seasonally. Now that habitats have evolved, they are once again yearround residents at Mount St. Helens.

My first bear encounter in the blast zone occurred in August 1986, barely avoiding a collision with three cubs. Little bear butts and legs flailed wildly as they scampered across a road, up and over an embankment. Why would they endure the hot open landscape? Brushy habitats at Mount St. Helens are now ideal for black The answer lay in piles of purple poop. In 1980, north-facing bears. Photo by Todd Cullings. slopes were snow-covered, protecting patches of huckleberry shrubs.

Huckleberries were essential for the bears to develop the fat reserves needed for hibernation.

As time passed, bear sightings became more frequent, and poop often provided important clues why. Spring emergence from hibernation revealed fur and insectfilled poop. After months without eating, bears crave protein. They feed on elk that succumbed to In the 1980s black bears wandered in and out of the blast zone winter, and devour entire when foods sources were available. USGS photo ant mounds. Summer poop reflects their largely vegetarian diet, upwards of 90% plants, nuts and seeds.

The Monument’s brushy environment is now ideal for bears, and that’s the straight poop.

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OUT • AND • ABOUT

Seattle’s Great Wheel Going in circles in the Emerald City Story and photos by Kiris Koontz

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y best friend from high school, who currently lives in Florida, was in town last month with her husband and two children. They wanted to spend a day playing tourist in Seattle, and as the resident tour guide, I accompanied them on their jaunt. We started our morning at Portage Bay Café in Ballard, enjoying a delicious brunch — they have a waffle toppings bar! With our tummies full, we were ready for adventure, so we decided to head down to the waterfront and check out the wheel.

When they first started talking about building the wheel back in 2011, I let out an internal groan. “Just what we need,” I thought, “another eyesore on the waterfront.” Well, what a “Negative Nancy” I was being!

The Seattle G r e a t Wheel, or “The Wheel” a s w e Seattleites like to call it, was built in 2012, opening for its first rotation on June 29th. The 175-foot monolith stands on the edge of the water at Miners Landing on Pier 57 in downtown Seattle.

It weighs a whopping 280,300 pounds and sits atop a foundation of 550 tons of concrete. With 42 fully-enclosed gondolas, you can enjoy a ride on the wheel, rain or shine, although I would highly suggest enjoying it during a time of shine.

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My favorite part about the wheel, is the light show it provides. The entire wheel is covered in LEDs that light it up in myriad ways. It is especially nice during the dreary fall and winter months as this adds a little brightness to the dark.

My friends were lucky to be in Seattle on a gorgeous 70-degree day, with nary a cloud in the sky. When we got to the wheel, we didn’t have to wait in line as we had already purchased our tickets online. A move I would highly recommend if you have a working printer. Online tickets MUST be printed. They do not currently have the capability to accept tickets on your smart phone. The first stop is the “Seattle Great Wheel” photo booth, where they snap one normal and one funny-faced cont page 19

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picture of your party to be purchased at the end of your ride. Then into the corrals to await our turn. It wasn’t too busy when we went and we only waited about 10 minutes before being loaded into our own personal gondola.

Then, off we went around and around.

A ride on the wheel offers three full rotations and amazing sights. A beautiful view of downtown Seattle (How many cranes can you count?), a picturesque view of Elliott Bay and the surrounding Puget Sound (How many ferries can you see? How many shipping vessels?), and if you’re lucky like us and the mountain is out, the wheel offers an amazing view of Mt. Rainier in all its 14,416 feet of glory.

At $13 per ticket (ages 12 and up) it is not something I would do every day, but if you happen to find yourself in Seattle on a beautiful day with clear skies, I would highly recommend a trip to the wheel.

••• Kiris Koontz (shown at left with a young friend), a graduate of Kelso High School, says she is living the dream in Seattle, building her ‘makeup empire’ as a presenter with Younique, and enjoying life to the fullest.

“I don’t fish.”

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By Erika Agren

y husband, Cory Remmers, is a fishing addict. Ask anyone.

It started about 15 years ago, just after we were married. He was fishing either the Cowlitz or the Columbia Rivers practically every day.

He would invite me to go along and try to sell me on the relaxation of it, or on sunny days, enjoying the weather. But it wasn’t my thing and once I decide I am against something, it takes, in this case, 15 years to change my mind.

His river fishing expanded to ocean fishing. And that introduced him to new fishing friends who have wives who fish with them – without protest. These new friends didn’t seem to accept that I didn’t fish. It was like they couldn’t understand, could not comprehend. As if the words “I don’t fish” were spoken in a foreign language. So they and Cory became a little more persistent in trying to break my anti-fishing stance.

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That Friday night I drove to Ilwaco, which is basically Cory’s second home, to meet up with him at the Ilwaco Tuna Club.

He immediately greets me with, “This is Clark and he is going to take you surf perch fishing tomorrow.”

This is the first time I have met Clark and I don’t want to be rude so I try to remain polite with my excuses. But Cory and Clark are persistent and I want to make a good impression with these new friends, so I start to protest less and pretend I am open to the idea. I just need a little time to think and come up with a good excuse to get me off the hook.

To go fishing would be to admit I’ve been wrong for 15 years. I pray for bad weather and the weather saves me. We don’t fish that weekend. Victory is mine.

This “fishing with Clark” thing will never be brought up again.

Well, just before leaving for home on Sunday night I see Clark and he tells me how glorious the following weekend will be and could I possibly come back down?

Don’t laugh, but I am in an internal struggle all week, sick with an identity crisis. I don’t fish. I don’t want to fish. All this anxiety becomes more than I can take and I give in. My resolve breaks. I agree to meet Clark on Friday.

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Cory was very wise to hire Clark. Clark makes things extremely easy. I just need to show up with my fishing license and some water shoes to wear over the waders he will provide. I get up early Friday morning and go to Four Corners General Store to buy my fishing license. I’ve memorized the type of license Cory has instructed me to get. Luckily for me, Polly is working that morning. Polly doesn’t know me well but she knows Cory and his fishing problem. She assures me cont page 20 Columbia River Reader /August 15 – September 14, 2016 / 19

I Don’t Fish

OUT • AND • ABOUT cont from page 19

that I am getting the right license – she can tell I am nervous. She asks if I like to fish. The look on her face tells me that she knows this is not something I am embracing wholeheartedly. No, I tell her, I don’t think I like it. She tells me she doesn’t quite see the allure of it either. Yes! I have an ally. Her statement gives me hope. Maybe there

is still a way out of this. Then she follows up with “You are a good wife to make the effort.” Ugh. Yes, I’ll be a good wife. No last minute cancellation for me. She asks where Cory and I are going fishing and I reply that I am not going with Cory. She looks surprised.

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has tons of experience and patience. He has everything I need: waders, fishing pole and bait. He knows when to go and where to go. We are fishing two hours before high tide and are looking for flat pool areas between the waves. He has me work on my casting and he explains how to watch the waves. We have waded out in to the ocean and I am a little nervous.

I know not to turn my back on the ocean but this warning seems to be translating into “Don’t move at all.”

of fishing my husband does, that I would be fishing with him. The fact that I am not delights the rebel in me.

Clark was right. The day is glorious – clear, calm, and warm. This is not your typical Long Beach weather and I am excited just to be outside. Clark Von Essen is definitely the person you need if you want to learn about fishing. He

After a while I start to relax. My casting is improving and I am moving in the water. Jumping with the waves and having FUN. Clark is talking me through each cast and instructing me on how to “fish it in.” We are getting a bite on practically every cast but I am having a little problem. While I am getting very good at identifying the bite – feeling the tap-tap and seeing the movement in the tip of the rod, I am having a hard time with the next crucial step, setting the hook.

Clark explains that it won’t take the perch long to figure out my bait is just plastic and I need to act fast, but I just can’t initiate the jerk of the arm that sets the hook. I somehow feel foolish doing it. In spite of that, I catch five perch. Anyone else probably would have caught many more that day, but I did catch my first-ever fish. It is a tiny baby one but I am still proud, shocked, and amazed that I could do it. We fish until the tide is no longer in our favor and we aren’t getting any more bites.

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I am still not ready to say “I fish,” but I might be getting there. My husband hopes I don’t need another 15 years before trying it again.

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Chamber Music

Left to right: Clark Potter, Don Kirkpatrick, Grant Mack, Steve Meharg, Chris Leach.

Making music together again Columbia River Reader

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usic lovers, get ready for a treat on August 19th, 20th, and 21st, when five highly accomplished musicians with local roots will present a chamber music festival. The weekend will include three free concerts with two different programs, and a freewill offering with all proceeds going to the Lower Columbia School Garden program.

The concerts will take place at the St. Stephen’s Church parish hall (see sidebar).

The Festival is an expanded version of last year’s R.A. Long Alumni Reunion Concert featuring Don Kirkpatrick, Steve Meharg, Christopher Leach, Clark Potter and Grant Mack. Mack had been in town in February 2015 for a gig as guest pianist with the Southwest Washington Symphony. That’s when the idea was hatched for an alumni concert, held last August.

Preparing for the concert took the group back in time. “Again Donald and I were looking at each other over the conductor’s podium,” Leach recalled, just like in high school.

The concert was so well attended, he said, “we had people outside listening through the doors.” They decided to do it again this summer but to give local music lovers more chances to hear them play by adding two extra concerts. They also recruited two additional musicians, Matt Mandrones and Stephen Sheppard, to help with the opening number on the program.

Besides their high school alma mater, the men share something else in common.

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IF YOU GO Columbia River Chamber Music Festival CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS Solos Night • Friday, 7pm Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D Minor and works by J.S. Bach, Hindemith, Clarke and Brahms.

Larger chamber works Saturday 7pm • Sunday 2pm Beethoven’s “Arch Duke” trio with violin, cello and piano; Brahms Double Concerto Piano Quintet.

St Stephens Parish Hall 1228 22nd Ave. (at corner of Louisiana Street) Longview, Wash.

Free admission.

A freewill offering will be taken for the benefit of the Lower Columbia School Gardens program.

“We all owe our love of chamber music to our former orchestra teacher, Raymond Clithero,” Leach said.

After last year’s concert the players performed a shortened program at the nursing home where Clithero lived until he passed away a few months later. “He’s the one who got us together.”

Kirkpatrick and Leach are the only two in the ensemble involved in nonmusical occupations and not currently playing professionally. “Getting our fingers and our bows back in shape is a real motivation,” Leach said.

“We’re practicing hard.”

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ART IN THE PARK

Local Arts

By Mary Fortner

Popular art show set for Sept 17, 9am–5pm at Lake Sacajawea.

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aking advantage of cooler autumn temperatures, the Columbian Artists Association decided to move the date for Art in the Park from August to September. This year’s show will take place at the same great location — Hemlock Plaza at Lake Sacajawea in Longview — with the same great local artists and some new ones, as well.

Lovely watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings will be offered, along with professional photography.

Original designs in handcrafted jewelry, beautiful fused glass, and unique pine needle b a s k e t

This is an opportunity to meet the artists, take a relaxing walk through the park and perhaps purchase an original or unique gift for yourself or a friend. (It’s not too early to think Christmas gifts).

Enter the drawing for prizes donated by the artists, including an original watercolor by

Art in the Park will coincide with the Cowlitz Tribal Health Walk held

early on September 17 from 9am to 12noon. A 5k run/walk and health screenings will be featured. It will be a good day to be at Lake Sacajawea.

We hope to see you there.

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Raffle prizes include an original painting by Carol Boudreau, Swarovski earrings & pendant by Mary Fortner and painted gourd by Sue Kramer.

Paid for by Dean Takko for State Senate Committee P.O. Box 1025 Longview, WA 98632

weaving are also among the outstanding art and fine crafts that will be featured at the show.

Carol Boudreau, decorated gourd by Sue Kramer, glassware by Irene Bacon, Swarovski crystal jewelry by Mary Fortner and other prizes.

I would be proud to continue representing you.

Dean Takko Washington State senate 19th District

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OUT • AND • ABOUT

COOKING WITH THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER

TOMATOES: Red as rubies, good as gold Story by Suzanne Martinson

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rowing up in the Midwest, I ate three meals a day with my family of five.

Breakfast at 7am after the cows were milked, dinner at noon when my dad came in from the field, and supper at 6pm sharp, after the second milking.

At our farm table this time of year, a fresh tomato from the garden was only a few steps past the backyard clothesline. If I looked out our kitchen window, the half-dozen or so gigantic, green tomato plants gave a come-hither look as they ripened in their own good time in the hot, humid Michigan sunshine.

Not that I cared.

Tomatoes always seemed like such a bother. On too many summer afternoons, I’d come to the kitchen for an almond windmill cookie and find my mother, her hair damp from steam, canning tomatoes in the heat and humidity of an August day. I never appreciated her labors until I tried to duplicate her recipe for Swiss steak with store-bought canned tomatoes. Yikes! No comparison with Mom’s home-canned.

Good for us

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tomato is more than a pretty face. It is also a low-calorie vegetable, just 18 calories per 100 grams (about 3 ½ ounces).

It is also low in fat and, of course, no cholesterol because only animal products have cholesterol.

The antioxidants in tomatoes are linked with protection against cancers, including colon, prostate, breast, endometrial and pancreatic.

Lycopene, an antioxidant, is a unique phytochemical compound found in tomatoes. Red varieties tend to posses more of this antioxidant. Lycopene protects the skin from ultra-violet rays and offers some defense against skin cancer. * A tomato contains good levels of vitamin A, and flavonoid anti-oxidants such as A and ß-carotenes, xanthins and lutein. Their antioxidant properties take part in night-vision, healthy skin and bones. * Tomatoes are a good source of Vitamin C, providing 21 percent of the recommended daily level per 100 grams. Vitamin C helps the body resist infectious agents. * Fresh tomatoes are rich in potassium; 100 grams contain 237 mg of potassium and just 5 mg of sodium.

Potassium helps control heart rate and blood pressure caused by sodium. * Tomatoes carry average levels of vital B-complex vitamins, such as folates, thiamin, niacin and riboflavin, as well some essential minerals, such as iron, calcium, manganese and other trace elements.

~Suzanne Martinson

Mysteriously, outside of potatoes, my farmer father — my role model — thought the only vegetable worth its salt was corn on the cob. So I grew up believing a slice of fresh tomato was a hard sell. Even if one of our garden’s Santa Claus-red tomatoes, ripened and picked fresh off the vine, was dripping juice, it was ... well, not sweet corn.

Perhaps persnickety people like me need a “gateway drug” to a vegetable they scorn. Mine was ketchup.

More likely, I consumed my first tomato because I was sharing an off-campus apartment with three roommates, who insisted every dinner

A salad including watermelon, tomatoes and feta cheese is a refreshing summer treat. See recipes for two variations (next page.) Photo © jenifoto-Fotolia.com

plate required a vegetable. Tomatoes slipped in even though, technically, the tomato is a fruit used as vegetable.

I didn’t care about that, but because we each kicked in five bucks for a week’s worth of food, I wanted to eat my fair share. (Remarkable, wasn’t it, that four college girls who walked miles a day to classes could subsist on a $20-a-week food budget. That was then, this is now.)

As a reluctant tomato-eating convert, I began to realize that a BLT is nothing without a “T” and a grilled hamburger with “everything” is sorely lacking when it’s stripped down to simply lettuce and mayo. Even today, a tossed salad is better when tossed with a tomato, including some of today’s trendy yellow ones. And, even better, heirloom tomatoes.

And don’t get me started on the journalistic adventure inspired by Fannie Flagg’s wonderful book and movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. That gave me a chance to write an offbeat story on the food stylist who prepared all those fried green tomatoes.

“They had to be identical,” she said with a sigh, remembering the extreme Southern heat and humidity, “because the food in each movie take had to look the same.”

I loved the book and movie. Someday, I’ll eat a fried green tomato.

A troubled history The tomato, bless its seedy heart, has long had an image problem. It originated in Mesoamerica, and at one time people thought tomatoes were best eaten in hotter countries, cont page 25

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Watermelon Feta Salad with Peaches, Basil and Tomato

“Summer” Tomato Salad Start to finish: 12 minutes

/4 cup fresh basil washed and left whole 8 oz feta cheese, crumbled 2 Tbl extra virgin olive oil 2 Tbl balsamic vinegar Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste 2-3 cups seedless watermelon, cut into 2” wedges (rind removed) 2 cups heirloom tomatoes, cut into wedges 2 cups ripe peaches or nectarines, cut into wedges 1 /2 sweet red onion, cut into thin slices

1 pound (about 2-1/2 cups) fresh tomatoes, chopped 1 cup seedless red grapes (½ pound) 1 medium cucumber (¼ pound) ½ small onion (about ¼ cup finely chopped) 1 /2 cup crumbled feta cheese 1 /4 cup bottled or prepared balsamic vinaigrette ¼ cup sliced almonds (not slivered)

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Combine watermelon, peaches, tomatoes and onion and place on large platter or serving bowl.

Sprinkle with basil leaves and feta.

Drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Season with sea salt and pepper. Serves 4 ~Recipe courtesy of Leonard Rede, a chef who teaches at the South Seattle Community College Culinary school and also works at Esquin Wine & Spirits, Seattle. “My go-to salad for backyard barbecues or summer parties has become some variation of this Watermelon Salad,” he wrote. “Stylish, easy, light and refreshing this simple dish is always a homerun. It goes well with almost any grilled entrée and pairs beautifully with a Rose wine.”

Wash and core the tomatoes, but do not peel them. Chop the tomatoes into ½-inch (or smaller) pieces and place them in a 2-quart or larger serving bowl. Slice the grapes in half (quarter any larger ones) and add them to the bowl. Dice the cucumber and add it to the bowl.

Peel and finely dice the onion, adding it to the bowl. (Refrigerate the remaining onion half for future use.)

Add the feta cheese and dressing to the bowl and toss to mix. Sprinkle the almonds over the salad and serve.

Serves 6.

Note: We tested the recipe with Good Season’s Italian Dressing Mix made with 5-year-old balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil. ~ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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as the Aztecs were doing as early as 700 AD, according to a 2013 article

by K. Annabelle Smith in Smithsonian Magazine.

The native Americans called it the “tomatl,” Smith wrote, and it wasn’t grown in Britain until the 1590s — for its pretty appearance, not eating.

The Spanish conquistadors were thought to have brought it home after expeditions in Mexico and other parts of Mesoamerica in the early 16th century. Some researchers credit the crafty Cortez with taking the seeds to southern Europe as early as 1519 — for ornamental purposes only.

When the tomato was exported to Europe, in the late 1700s, its nickname was the “poison apple” after some aristocrats got sick and died after eating some. No wonder a large percentage of Europeans feared the fruit.

Then, around 1880, pizza was invented in Naples, Italy, and the tomato was welcomed at many tables. However, before it ever made its mark in North America, it got classified with the deadly nightshade, not the best kind of public relations.

Yet others proclaimed the tomato as an aphrodisiac, and it became know as the “love apple.” What to believe?

And what would American teens do without pizza?

Falling in love My own first affair with pizza came in a pasteboard box from Chef Boyardee.

It was a pizza mix: Yeast dough to be mixed with water. Tomato goo. Was that Parmesan cheese?

from Pittsburgh with the North Hills High School Symphony Band, which was honored with an invitation to perform for the National Association for Music Education.

Our daughter, Jessica, played the French horn, and Pennsylvania band parents are almost as rabid as Steelers fans. Hence the long car trip.

We arrived hungry, and we knew Italian food was a priority. The hotel concierge called for a car to take us to a restaurant he recommended. It was too early for Italians to dine, and we were practically the only customers in the white-tablecloth place. We had a delicious meal and a cute Italian server, or maybe he was just a college boy affecting an accent, like we’ve seen in some French restaurants.

Whatever, it was a wonderful evening. Energized, we walked the several blocks back to our hotel.

As was our custom, Ace left a generous tip, and under my dessert plate I left my newspaper food editor business card, praising the fine meal and service.

Monday morning at 9am, back in the newsroom, my phone rang. It was the restaurant owner. His accent seemed authentic.

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“We reporters are not allowed to accept free meals,” I said, wondering guiltily what kind of fine Italian wine he might have included. He was insistent, so I added, “You wouldn’t want to get me fired, would you?”

I went on to tell him how much my husband and I had enjoyed our first dinner in Baltimore. “The waiter even gave me a kiss good-bye.”

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Miss Manners

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GENTLE READER: Have you tried texting him? It might read something like, “I do so enjoy our time together face to face. But if this is a bad time and you have something pressing, perhaps we should reschedule.”

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our book club selects books to read in the following way: The person whose turn it is to host suggests two or three choices, and we vote on them.

On several occasions, members have proposed, and we have selected, books by friends or acquaintances. Sometimes a member even suggests that the author attend the meeting at which we discuss the book.

This feels very awkward to me. I feel that the books should be chosen on merit alone, and that this criterion is receding into the background. Sometimes I think the member proposing the book is doing so with an eye to increasing sales. (Some of these books are self-published and are “struggling to find an audience,” shall we say.)

More important, we try to have frank discussions of the books we read for this group, and frank discussion seems much less likely when the author is a friend or acquaintance. Having the author actually present for the discussion seems even more likely to inhibit our discussion.

What is your view of the matter? And how can I delicately explain my position to the group?

GENTLE READER: Suggesting to the group that you avoid authors known by members of the group, as it will inhibit the kind of free discussion that the group prizes, should be easy enough.

So long as you omit the part about selecting books only on quality, Miss Manners sees no impediment to raising the issue even with an author present.

Life on the River DEAR MISS MANNERS: Our youngest son got married last year.

I have one friend who emailed me four times asking when she is going to get a thank-you card from the newly married couple. She even asked two of our mutual friends if they received anything.

My son’s wife is in school, pursuing a law degree, looking for an internship and also volunteering, and not home all day doing nothing.

I have personally thanked many people, and told them that eventually there will be an official thank-you card. Most people don’t mind. They say it’s the 21st century. My daughter-in-law also says she will send cards within the first year of marriage.

GENTLE READER: No, she won’t.

There will never be a time that she considers acknowledging other people’s generosity as important as her studies, internship, volunteering, and whatever else she is doing, including resting up from all that.

Oscar the Osprey gets a new home By Chuck Ramsdell

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he Lower of our neighbor, Pat Columbia has McMahon. Other than so many things the occasional osprey to watch and see it landing on one of the is impossible to study piling to help spot a fish them all. Among for dinner, the piling our feathered friends, were unused. eagles are the most I asked Pat if it would recognizable, but be okay if I installed a osprey are the best platform for the ospreys flyers. Often the eagles to build a nest. He are being chased by thought it was a great other birds or fighting idea. His only question: Osprey American subspecies other eagles. To protect How was I going to Pandion haliaetus. Photo by its nest, an osprey will Michael L. Baird, Wikipedia CC. install a platform on take on an eagle. In a 14-inch steel piling June, my wife, Leslie, 22 feet off the water? I heard that and I visited Mike Baccellieri, a question several times before that day friend on Puget Island who had ended. There seemed to be no easy way to install the platform on the piling.

Ospreys were nearly extinct in 1972 due to use of DDT and other chemicals, plus the destruction of their habitat.

Now they are coming back strong.

Ospreys often mate for life and can be found any place in the world except Antarctica. They weigh about three pounds and live seven to 10 years. The oldest osprey on record was 25 years old. During an osprey’s life, it may migrate 160,000 miles. A young osprey will have red eyes, changing to yellow

But other people also have busy lives, and some of them took the time and trouble to be generous to her and your son, who could equally well write the letters. (Where is his responsibility in your complaint?)

Thanks are due when presents are received — that there is a year’s leeway is an unfortunate myth.

Miss Manners warns you not to take comfort in your friends’ polite assurances that they don’t care.

There is no 21st-century ruling that gratitude has been abolished while generosity must be continued.

••• Please send your questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.)

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topped all the trees in his backyard (which opened up to the Columbia River) except for a tall cottonwood tree. In the top of the cottonwood was a platform clearly much higher than the surrounding treetops. On the platform, an osprey was building a nest. Leslie and I both were impressed with Mike’s effort to make the world a better place to live, at least for a family of ospreys.

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as it gets older. Ospreys’ nesting period is from April 15 to Aug 20. They are excellent fishers, catching fish on 2570 percent of their dives.

After my research of ospreys, it was time to start building. The platform framework, constructed of 11/2- inch cont page 27

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PVC pipe, resembled an ice cream cone. The deck is quarter-inch marine plywood. I built the platform by trial and error out of things I already had.

After several corrections, I finally got something that didn’t look too bad. Now we were ready to attempt the most difficult part of the project, raising and attaching the platform to the 22-foot steel piling standing above us. We had a team: Doug Morten, 6’3” tall whose height and strength would come in handy; Pat, who worked for a power company until he retired and had way more experience than anyone else on the team; and I, who was just crazy enough to take on a project like this.

We would use my Hobie Cat sailboat as a “floating crane” to lift the platform into place. Of course, the piling was a little too high and the boat mast a little too short. We waited for high tide. We built a platform under one end of the Hobie Cat and moved it into place. By building a teeter-totter we could raise the bow of the boat. We rocked the cat, which raised the stern.

The upper platform started swinging.

We missed connecting the piling and platform at least five times. But all of a sudden, the platform went up and caught on the piling. It rattled around and dropped like an NBA three-point shot. One of the halyards got caught and had to be cut. But I was (pleasantly) surprised we were able to pull this off.

might have a girlfriend and a new home, Leslie and I are hoping. We cut some nestbuilding sticks, two feet long about a inch in diameter, and placed them near the base of the piling.

Leslie and I are enjoying watching the ospreys and hope to see them increase in numbers in the future. By the way, the grandkids named him Oscar.

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Quotes selected by Gordon Sondker

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To state the facts frankly is not to despair for the future nor indict the past. ~ Ronald Reagan

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~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don’t ever apologize for anything. ~ Harry S. Truman The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. ~ Theodore Roosevelt It either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. ~ John A. Garfield

The osprey landed on his new perch about two hours later. The next day he caught his first fish and ate it on his platform! We are near the end of the mating season for this year, but the project has surprised us how well it has gone. Our osprey, who has been hanging around for the past year,

One man with courage makes a majority. ~ Andrew Jackson New ideas can be good or bad, just the same as old ones.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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~ John F. Kennedy Longview resident Gordon Sondker has been active in politics, never as a candidate, but serving as Precinct Committee Officer wherever he’s lived over the past 55 years.

“I’m very comfortable trying to get good people elected,” he said. As readers prepare to vote in November, we will offer “pearls of wisdom” from American Presidents.

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Outings & Events

Performing & Fine Arts Music, Art, Theatre, Literary

HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR NON-PROFIT EVENT IN CRR Send your non-commercial community event’s basic info (name of event, sponsor, date & time, location, brief description and contact info) to publisher@crreader.com Or mail or hand-deliver (in person or via mail slot) to: Columbia River Reader 1333-14th Ave Longview, WA 98632 Submission Deadlines Events occurring Sept 15–Oct 20:

by Aug 25 for Sept 15 issue.

Events occurring Oct 15–Nov 30: by Sept 25 for Oct 15 issue.

Calendar submissions are considered for inclusion subject to lead time, general relevance to readers, and space limitations. See Submission Guidelines, above.

Broadway Gallery Artists co-op. Featured artists, Aug: Ray Cooper (paintings), Beth Bailey (pen & ink, watercolor; Guest artist William Swinth (ceramics); Sept: Lois Beck (mono prints & collage), Fae Marie Beck (ceramics & sculpture), Libby Taylor (watercolors). Year-round classes for all ages, workshops and paint parties. Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30. 1418 Commerce, Longview, Wash. 360-577-0544. www.the-broadwaygallery.com

FIRST THURSDAY Sept 8 Downtown Longview

Teague’s Interiors & Gallery Artwork by local artists in the gallery. Iconography and Chalk Paint workshops. Call to reserve or for more info: 360-636-0712. Hours: 10–5:30 M–F, 10–3 Sat. 1267 Commerce Ave, Longview, Wash.

Broadway Gallery Meet the featured artists!

Reception, 5:30-7pm.

Appetizers, & beverages.

Live music by Trish Ballard, guitar/vocals.

1418 Commerce Ave. www.the-broadway-gallery.com

Rolling on the River Exhibit of sternwheelers, steamboats and tug boats on the Lower Columbia River. Through Sept 5. Noon-4pm, Thurs-Sun. River Life Interpretive Center, Redmen Hall, 1394 State Route 4, Skamakowa, Wash. 360-795-3007.

Teague’s Gallery 1267 Commerce Ave. 360-636-0712 Open until 7pm.

Tsuga Gallery Fine arts and crafts by area artists. Thurs-Sat 11–5. 70 Main Street, Cathlamet, Wash. 360-795-0725.

The Art Gallery at LCC Through Aug 17: Lisa Sipe. Rose Center for the Arts, 1600 Maple St., Longview, Wash. Gallery hours: Mon–Wed 10–8, Wed-Thurs 10–5. Info: lowercolumbia. edu/gallery.

Both galleries will also be open late on Fri., Aug 25 for CRR’s Downtown Longview Walkabout. See page 9.

Submission Guidelines Letters to the Editor (up to 200 words) relevant to the publication’s purpose — helping readers discover and enjoy the good life in the Columbia River region, at home and on the road — are welcome. Longer pieces, or excerpts thereof, in response to previously-published articles, may be printed at the discretion of the publisher and subject to editing and space limitations.

Items sent to CRR will be considered for publication unless the writer specifies otherwise. Writer’s name and phone number must be included; anonymous submissions will not be considered.

Political Endorsements CRR is a monthly publication serving readers in several different towns, three counties, two states and beyond and does not publish Letters to the Editor that are endorsements or criticisms of political candidates or controversial issues. (Paid ad space is available.)

Unsolicited submissions may be considered, provided they are consistent with the publication’s purpose. Advance contact with the editor is recommended. Information of general interest submitted by readers may be used as background or incorporated in future articles.

Outings & Events calendar (free listing): . Events must be open to the public. Non-profit organizations and the arts, entertainment, educational and recreational opportunities and community cultural events will receive listing priority.

Fundraisers must be sanctioned/sponsored by the benefiting non-profit organization.

See submission deadlines, above. Businesses and organizations wishing to promote their particular products or services are invited to purchase advertising (contact info, page 3).

FREE OUTDOOR CONCERTS 13 Nights on the River

Waikiki Beach • Ilwaco, Wash.

Aug 18 Sweetwater Aug 25 Jujuba Sept 1 Radical Revolution 14th Night Encore

Aug 13 Lulu LaFever. Roadhouse

songwriting with pop jazz and

juke joint swing.

St. Helens, Ore.

6–9pm Thursdays, St. Helens Columbia View Park, Old Town, St. Helens, Ore. Info: 13nightsontheriver.com

Aug 27 Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons, Pre-blues a cappella field

hollers, fiddle, banjo, early jazz.

7–8:30pm Saturdays, Cape Disappointment State Park, along Jetty Road near Ilwaco. Bring lawn chairs, blankets and insect repellent.

Kelso Highlander Festival Invites you to come and experience a

Koth Gallery Longview Public Library Through Aug 27, “Nature” collection of paintings by Scott McRae. See page 13.

Longview Public Library, 1600 Louisiana Street, Longview, Wash. Mon-Wed 10am8pm, Thurs-Sat 10am-5pm. 360-441-5300.

Big Band in the Park Free concert, 2pm Sept 5, Clatskanie City Park. Kickoff for Clastskanie Arts Commission 28th season. Bring your own chairs; bleachers available. Food available for purchase 1pm. Info: www.clatskaniearts.com.

Mount St. Helens Visitor Center Photos of Washington State parks by Asahel Curtis, through Sept 15. Daily 9am-5pm. At Silver Lake, 5 miles up Spirit Lake Memorial Highway (I-5 Exit 49). $3 admission for adults.

360-374-0962.

Grapes, Grains & Grooves Sat, Sept 17, 3–10pm (12:30 with VIP Pass). Cowlitz Regional Conference Center, 1900 7th Ave, Longview, Wash. Live music (3-7pm Gordon Avenue; 7:30–11:30pm Willow Grove; T-shirt, glass, drink packages $25-45 singles, $40–80 for 2. Early Edition Rotary fundraiser.

Info: www.grapesgrainsandgrooves.com.

Piano Concert featuring Anne Denis and Nicholas Fontana of Portland. Sun, Sept 18, 4pm. Faith Lutheran Church, 1010 NE 5th St, Clatskanie, Ore. Free admission. Hosted

by Janice & Fritz Youra; the public is invited.

Info: 503-298-1942.

Quilting for the Art of It Ladies of the Lake Annual Quilt Show. Fri-Sat, Sept 30-Oct 1, 10–4. $5 Admission. Youth & Family LINK, 907 Douglas St., Longview, Wash. Info: www. lolquiltguild.org.

I think I’ll drop by CRR’s office for a box of chocolates...See’s are the best AND my guilty indulgence benefits local music scholarships!

“Wee Bit o’ Scotland”

Entertainment by:

Sept. 10 & 11, 2016 Highland Dance Competition Highland Team Games Heavyweight Events Fun Run/Walk • Bagpipe Bands Scottish Vendors • Food Avenue of the Clans Shortbread Baking Contest Silent Auction • Parade

FREE ADMISSION! TAM O’ SHANTER PARK • KELSO, WASHINGTON

For more information contact: 360-423-0900

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Columbia River Chamber Music Festival Aug 19, 20, 21. Fri, Sat 7pm, Sun 2pm. St. Stephen’s Church, 1428 22nd Ave., Longview, Wash. Free admission. Freewill offering to benefit Lower Columbia School Gardens. See story, page 22.

http://kelso.gov/visitors/highlander-festival

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Outings & Events

Recreation, Outdoors, Gardening History, Pets, Self-Help 20th Annual Chehalis Garlic Fest & Craft Show Aug. 26-28. Fri 12–7, Sat 10–7, Sun 10–5. SW Washington Fairgrounds, 2555 N. National Ave., Chehalis, Wash. Details, see ad, page 18.

Should You Still Trust: Are Trusts Still Useful in Your Estate Plan? Aug. 16, 12–1:30pm. Aging Wisely Seminar Series presented by LCC Foundation. Panelists: Mike Claston, estate planning attorney; Linda Davis, CPA; John Nord, independent trustee. Location to be announced. Info: 360-442-2130.

51st Annual Rock & Gem Show Aug 17-18, Sat 10–5, Sun 10–4. Castle Rock Fairgrounds, Castle Rock, Wash. Free admission. Dealers, food, country store, door prizes, gem dig, spin table, silent auction, voice auction Sat 3pm. Southwest Washington Mineralogical Society. Info: Nicole Doiron, 360-785-4417.

Emergency Preparedness Fair for Seniors

Friday, Aug 19, 10am–2pm. Helping inform seniors how to equip themselves to get through emergencies and natural disasters. Complimentary goody bags of emergency items, mini-seminars every half hour, vendors. Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave., Kelso, Wash. Info: 360-232-8522.

Veterans Helping Veterans Sat., Aug 20, 11am–4pm, east end of Lowe’s parking lot, 2850 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview, Wash. Antique cars on display. Raffle tickets $1 donation for prizes incl tools, radios, dinners for two, and more. Proceeds go to help one specific veteran in need, event privately sponsored/organized by Earl Clark and other veterans. Info: 360304-1406.

20th Annual Untouchables Car Show Sun, Aug. 21. Historic Downtown Kalama, Wash. Registration 8am–12noon. $20 fee (incl dash plaque and goody bag). Parade of Winners Award Ceremony 3pm. Trophies, raffle, poker walk, music by Flashback Entertainment. Vendor info: 360-6734071. Show info: 360-423-0125. Sponsored

by Untouchables Car Club, benefits LCC scholarships for local high school graduates.

Driving directions: Take I-5 Exit 30 Kalama, entrance to car show from south end of town only.

Remnants of the Past Stella Historical Society annual celebration. Sat, Sept. 10, 10am4pm. Activities at two locations.: •Stella Historical Society Museum, 8530 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview, Wash. Tours of old Stella Post Office circa 1871, and blacksmith shop, demos by Jo Schnotala of Wildwoman Forge, old-time farm equipment display.

•Stella Lutheran Chapel, 124 Sherman Rd., Longview, Wash. 2-mile drive along Germany Creek Rd leads to display of old logging photos, farmers market and bake sale, live musical entertainment. Info: Barbara or Harvey Williamson, 360-4233860.

Vendors invited by Friends of the Columbia City Community Library to join in the Columbia City Celebration 9–3, Sat., Sept 17, to display and sell items handcrafted within Columbia County. 10’ x 10’ booth space $20. Registration forms available at the City Hall and on the City’s website at www.columba-city.org. Registration must be completed by 5 pm Fri, Sept 2. For more info, contact City Hall, 503-397-4010.

Cowlitz County Museum Ongoing exhibit: “Badges, Bandits & Booze.” Many photos on display from the early days to current times. Open Tues-Sat 10am–4pm. 405 Allen St, Kelso, Wash. www.co.cowlitz. wa.us/museum. Info: 360-577-3119.

Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum Logging, fishing and cultural displays. Open 1-4pm, Th-Sun. 65 River St, Cathlamet, Wash. For info 360-795-3954.

Kalama Garden Club meets first Wednesday of month. 11am. Meeting locations change monthly, for current meeting info contact Sherwood Pattisherwood@scattercreek. com or 360-673-2809. Visitors are welcome.

Appelo Archives Center Historic exhibits, Naselle-Grays River area. 1056 State Route 4, Naselle. T-Fri 10–4, Sat 10–2, or by appt.

360-484-7103. appeloarchives.org.

R Square D Dance Club Sept thru May: Dances 2nd and 4th Sat 7:30 Plus; 8–10pm Mainstream with Rounds $6 Donationadmission. Craig Abercrombie, caller; Lonnie Sykes, cuer. Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave, Kelso, Wash. Info: 360414-5855.

Surf fishing?

Erika’s story on page 19 aroused my curiosity... and my appetite.

I would offer to go along next time except I hate to get wet. I’m more of an on-the-bank, pond dipper.

L u m m i Na t i o n Tot e m Po l e V i s i t

presentation, blessing of the totem pole on its journey to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Fri, Aug 26, 10:30am–12 Noon. Longview United Methodist Church, 2851 30th Ave., Longview. Wash. Lunch to follow.

Sponsored by the Interfaith Advocates for Justice and Landowners and Citizens for a Safe Community (LCSC).

Longview Bridge Club Weekly duplicate bridge games Mon, 10:30am and Thurs 6:30pm, Kelso Senior Center, 106 NW 8th Ave., Kelso. New players welcome. For info or help finding a partner: Rich Carle, 360425-0981 or rhcarle@msn.com.

~ Smokey

Man in the Kitchen’s

Community / Farmers’ Markets Puget Island Farmers’ Market Cathlamet, Wash.

Fridays, thru Oct. 14 • 3–6 59 West Birnie Slough Rd, Produce, eggs, goat cheeses, butter, breads, pizza. Local artisan crafts, live music.

Info: Rob Stockhouse 360-560-3785; Diane 360-849-4145.

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Astoria Sunday Market Sundays • 10–3 thru Oct 6 Downtown on 12th, just west of Hwy 30, Astoria, Ore. Info: Cindi Mudge, 503-325-1010 Clatskanie Farmers’ Market Saturdays• 10–2 thru Sept. 24 Copes Park. From Hwy 30, turn north on Nehalem, east on Lillich.

Produce, jewelry, soaps, arts/crafts, food cart. Food prep demos. Live music. clatskaniefarmersmarket.com Info:clatskaniefmmanager@gmail.com

St. Helens Open Air Market Thursdays, thru Sept 1 • 4–9 St. Helens Plaza, St. Helens, Ore. Live music 6pm at the Amphitheatre Info: christina.13nights@gmail.com or 620-654-8205.

Columbia-Pacific Farmers’ Market Fridays • 4–7 thru Sept 30 Downtown Long Beach, Wash. www.longbeachwa.gov Info: 360-642-4421

Scappoose Community Club Farmers Market Saturdays, thru Oct 1 • 9–2 E. 2nd Street (street closed during market), Scappoose, Ore. (between City Hall & Library - visible from Hwy 30) wwwscappoosefarmermarket.com Info: Bill Blank 503-730-7429

Cowlitz Community Farmers’ Market Tues and Sats • 9–2 thru Oct 7th Ave, Cowlitz Expo Center, Longview, Wash. www.cowlitzfarmersmarkets.com Info: John Raupp 360-785-3883 Jrshamrockhill3@aol.com.

Woodland Farmers Market Fridays • 3–7 Saturdays • 10–3 thru Sept.

Fat Moose parking lot, 1388 Lewis River Rd, Woodland, Wash.

Info: J. Smith 360-225-7944

Ilwaco Saturday Market Saturdays • 10–4 thru Sept 24 Port of Ilwaco, Ilwaco, Wash. www.portofilwaco.com Info: Bruce Peterson 503-338-9511

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Wed, Aug 17 • Lake Sacajawea (E) Walk the whole lale (3+ miles) or walk half the lake (1+ mile. Group consenses for breakfast/lunch afterwards. Leaders: Trudy & Ed, 360-414-1160.

Sat, Aug 20 • Pacific Crest Trail/Sedurn Point (M) Drive 175 miles RT. Hike 10.5 miles RT with 2,125 ft. e.g. Key pass along the PCT between Stabler and Stevenson. Mostly a forest hike with nice view of Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Indian Heaven and cascading falls. Can check out Pacific Crest Trail Days celebration in Cascade Locks after the hike. Leader: Dan, 360-578-2849.

Mon, Aug 22 • Fort Vancouver Trail (E) Drive 90 mi. RT. Hike 3+ miles on level paved trail along the Columbia River. Historical area with bridge access to Columbia River. Leader: Uncle Bob, 360-703-3564.

Sat, Aug 27 • Cora Lake - Osborne Mountain (S) Drive 110 mi. RT. Hike 10 miles RT with 1,700’ e.g. Walk through massive old-growth trees past 4 alpine lakes, along slopes of Osborne Mountain and down to Big Creek Campground for a post-hike picnic. Leader: Bruce 360-4250256.

Mon, Aug 29 • Kalama Waterfornt (E) Drive 20 miles RT. Walk 3+ miles RT to explore this

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This friendly club plans several hikes each month.

For more info please call the hike leader or visit mtsthelensclub.org.

RT(round trip) distances are from Longview.

E=easy M=moderate S=strenuous e.g.=elevation gain.

nearby historic area along a level paved path on the Columbia River. View wildlife, ships, etc. Leader: George 360-562-0001.

Sat, Sept 10 • Coldwater Peak (S) Drive 120 miles RT. Hike 12 miles with 1,900 ft. e.g. through scenic, open blast zone terrain.

Nice view of Spirit, St. Helens and Coldwater Lakes. Leaders: Rich 360-442-8566 and George, 360-562-0001.

Mon, Sept 12 Lacamas Lake Trail (E) Drive 110 mi. RT. Hike 3–4 miles RT with 100’ e.g. on mostly gravel trail along south shore of Lacamas Lake in quiet environment with lots of birdsong. Leader: Uncle Bob 360-703-3564.

Wed, Sept 14 • Warrior Point, Sauvie Island (M) Drive 116 miles RT. Hike 7 miles RT. Quiet, flat walk through wildlife refuge. $10 day pass per car. Wildlife Refuge Pass. Leader: Bonny 503-335-5220.

Sat, Sept 17• Cloud Cap / Cooper Spur (M/S) Drive 250 mi. RT. High elevation hike on NE flank of Mt. Hood with soaring views.

Difficulty depends on how high you want to soar — 6 miles with 1,200 ft. e.g. to Gnarl Ridge; 8 miles with 2,600 ft. e.g. to trail’s end on Cooper Spur at 8,400 feet. Leader: Dan 360-578-2849.

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Clatskanie Flowers ‘n’ Fluff Coffee Shop 45 E. Columbia River Hwy Wine Tasting, Dinner & Live Music Fridays 5:30–8:30pm. Unforgettable scones, On-the-go breakfast & lunch.

Coffee Shop M-F 5:30am–6:30pm; Sat 7am–6pm; Sun 8am–6pm.

503-728-4222.

COLUMBIA RIVER

Castle Rock

dining guide

Luigi’s Pizza 117 East 1st Street, Rainier 503-556-4213 Pizza, spaghetti, burgers, beer & wine.

See ad, page 7.

1210 Ocean Beach Hwy., Longview. Fish & chips, burgers, more.

Beer & wine. 360-577-7972

St. Helens Bertucci’s

Kelso Fultano’s Pizza 770 E. Columbia River Hwy Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more!

M-Sat 11am–10pm; Sun 11am–9pm.

503-728-2922

Grounds for Opportunity 413 S. Pacific Ave. 360-703-3020 Wed– Sun 7am–3pm. Breakfast and Lunch available all day.

Longview Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant 640 E. Columbia River Hwy Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials.

The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials. Sports bar.

M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-728-3344

Rainier Alston Pub & Grub 25196 Alston Rd., Rainier 503-556-4213 11 beers on tap, cocktails.

Open daily 11am.

503-556-9753 See ad, page 7.

Conestoga Pub Cornerstone Café 102 East “A” Street Microbrews, wines & spirits Prime rib Friday & Sat. Open M-F 6am–8pm; Sat-Sun 7am–8pm.

503-556-8772. See ad, page 7.

1329 Commerce Ave., Longview (alley entrance). Fine dining, happy hour specials. wine tastings. Tues-Sat open 5pm.

360-425-2837. See ad, page 15.

Homestyle cooking from the 1960s-1970. All natural ingredients. Beer and wine available. Open Wed. thru Sun, 7am–8pm. See ad, page 9.

The Carriage Restaurant & Lounge

Full breakfast, lunch and dinner. Daily drink special: Bloody Mary $5. Homemade soup 6am–2pm. Full bar in lounge, open 6am.

1334 12th Ave. 360-425-8545.

Locally roasted espresso, fine teas, fresh pastries daily, smoothies, beer & wine, homemade soups. Breakfast and lunch. 1333 Broadway. 360-425-7700 See ad, page 6.

Country Folks Deli 1329 Commerce Ave., Longview. Open for lunch and dinner. 360-425-2837.

Evergreen Pub & Café 115-117 East 1st Street Burgers, halibut, prime rib, full bar.

503-556-9935. See ad, page 7.

Goble Tavern 70255 Columbia River Hwy. (Milepost 31, Hwy. 30) Food, beer & wine + full bar, Live entertainment. 503-556-4090.

See ad page 7.

Hometown Pizza 109 E. “A” St. Take-and-bake, Delivery, To-Go and dine-in. Lunch Buffet M-F 11–2.

Open daily 11am; close M-Th, Sat 9pm, Fri 10pm. 503-556-3700

Freddy’s Just for the Halibut. Cod, halibut & tuna fish and chips, oysters & clams., award-winning clam chowder. Prime rib every Thurs. Beer and wine. M-W 10–8, Th-Sat 10–9, Sun 11–8.

1110 Commerce 360-414-3288.

See ad, page 19.

Hop N Grape 924 15th Ave., Longview M–Th 11am–8pm; Fri & Sat 11am–9pm; Sun 11am–7pm. BBQ meat slow-cooked on site. Pulled pork, chicken brisket, ribs, turkey, salmon. World-famous mac & cheese. 360-577-1541 See ad page 27.

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Parker’s Restaurant & Brewery 1300 Mt. St. Helens Way. I-5 Exit 49.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Burgers, hand-cut steak; seafood and pasta.

Restaurant opens 8am, Lounge 12 Noon. Closed Monday. 360-967-2333

2017 Columbia Blvd., St. Helens Mon–Fri 9–5; Sat 10–4.

Breakfast sandwiches, deli sandwiches, espresso, chocolates. See ad, page 6.

1260 Commerce Ave. Serving lunch & dinner Mon–Sat 11am–10pm. Full bar, banquet space, American comfort food. 360-703-3904. www.millcitygrill.com. See ad, page 19.

The Original Pietrio’s Pizzeria

614 Commerce Ave., Longview. 18 varieties of pizza. Salad bar, Lunch buffet all-you-can-eat. Beer & wine. Mon-Fri open 11am, Sat-Sun 12 Noon. 360-3533512.

Sunshine Pizza & Catering 2124 Columbia Blvd.

Hot pizza, cool salad bar. Beer & wine.

503-397-3211 See ad, page 27.

Scappoose Fultano’s Pizza 51511 SE 2nd.

Family style with unique pizza offerings, hot grill items & more! “Best pizza around!”

M–Th, Sat 11am–10pm; Fri 11am– 11pm; Sun 11am–9pm. Full bar service ‘til 11pm Fri & Sat. Deliveries in Scappoose. 503-543-5100.

Porky’s Public House 561 Industrial Way, Longview Slow-roasted prime rib Fri & Sat, flat iron steaks, 1/3-lb burgers, fish & chips.

31 draft beers. Full bar.

360-636-1616. See ad, page 6.

Ice cream, oldfashioned milkshakes, sundaes, local coffee, healthy lunches, Fun atmosphere in The Merk. 1339 Commerce. 360-4234986. See ad, page 8.

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Restaurant

Happy Hour & Dinner. Seafood, steaks, pasta and salads.

Wed–Sat 4–9pm. Full bar. Reservations recommended. 1125 Commerce, Longview. 360-501-4328. See ad, page 20.

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Teri’s 3225 Ocean Beach Hwy, Longview.

Lunch and dinner. Fine dining, with specials, fresh NW cuisine. Happy Hour.

Full bar. Mon–Sat open 11am. Closed Sundays. 360-577-0717.

33452 Havlik Rd. Fine Mexican cuisine. Daily specials. The best margarita in town. Daily drink specials.

M-Th 11am–9:30pm; Fri & Sat 11am–11:30pm; Sun 11am–9pm. 503-543-3017

Fire Mountain Grill at Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center. 15000 Spirit Lake Hwy. 11–6 , 7 days a week.

Burgers, sandwiches, beer & wine. 360274-5217.

Woodland Fresh-roasted coffee, snack and pastries. 1335 14th Ave., M-F 9am–4pm, Sat-Sun 9am–4pm. 360-2328642 Second location: 931 Ocean Beach Hwy (Inside seating plus drive-thru).

M-F 6am–8pm, Sat-Sun 8am–8pm.

360-232-8642. See ad, page 8.

The Oak Tree 1020 Atlantic Ave., Woodland. Full lunch, breakfast and dinner menu. Fresh from scratch cooking. Great happy hour menu. Sun 7am–9pm, M-Th 8am–9pm, Fri-Sat 7am–10pm. 360-841-8567

To advertise in Columbia River Dining Guide call 360-749-2632

Northwest Foods

MAN IN THE KITCHEN CLASSIC

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Pork Roast on the Grill By Paul Thompson

ith courage, I can walk past a standing rib beef roast at the meat market. They are so large and require planning a formal dinner with guests. But the equivalent bonein pork rib roast is of more modest proportions and equally delicious.

and cook until a meat thermometer reaches 155-160º.

Then move the meat to the grill and continue cooking until it reaches 165-170º internal temp.

Let rest for 10 minutes before serving thin-sliced portions.

For an accompanI prefer the boneiment, tomatoes in roast because with or without the bone adds vine and stems moisture and flavor attached , brushed to the roast. And with olive oil and I’d rather cook seasoned bring a it on an outside visual “splat” to grill, moving from Pork shoulder roast and grilled tomatoes the table. Place on nearing perfection. hotter areas to high heat briefly, cooler ones as needed. The aroma turning as needed to get charred wafts among your guests, whetting effect. their appetites.

Or cut single tomatoes in half, Pork is often short on flavor, except crosswise, and drizzle with melted for the outside cuts, my favorites. I butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs, embed slices of garlic in slits cut along Parmesan cheese and fresh chopped the sides and ends of the roast, adding herbs of your choice and place under a subtle garlic flavor. I baste the roast broiler until bubbly. with garlic butter, as well, during ••• cooking. They are good companions.

If you want a head start, put the roast, uncovered in a 320ºF oven,

Longview resident Paul Thompson is a charter contributor to CRR and remains a regular columnist as “Man in the Kitchen.”

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Movies

DR. BOB ON FILMS

Three films for August

Jason Bourne, Star Trek Beyond,

By Dr. Bob Blackwood Captain Fantastic

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inally, my pleasant surprise was in Matt Ross’ “Captain Fantastic” (R) with Viggo Mortensen (Ben) as the star. Ben is the father of six children— from a preschooler to teenagers and a slightly older son. Ben lives in a self-contained home he has built in the forest of the Northwest. He trains his children to survive and to depend on themselves, Noam Chomsky and various leftist thinkers. His manicdepressive wife has left the home fairly recently and is dependent on her affluent parents in New Mexico.

When word comes that she has ended

her life in a suicide, the pater familias takes the whole bunch south in a large customized school bus for the funeral.

The conflict with his dead wife’s affluent father (Frank Langella), who does not approve of the children’s up-bringing, is intense. Though Ben’s children lack very little in their development, Ben does go through a series of learning experiences which are at times painful but necessary. His character is truly three-dimensional.

This is a small film with a human message. Give it a look if it comes your way.

Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) prepares to face his enemies in Paul Greengrass’ “Jason Bourne.”

Photo: XTF Entertainment.

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att Damon plays the title role in Paul Greengrass’ “Jason Bourne” (PG-13). Is that good or bad? Well, he has played that role as the renegade CIA hitman three times already, the last time in 2007’s “The Bourne Ultimatum.” As I have just seen “Ultimatum” for the second time, just after seeing “Jason Bourne,” I preferred the earlier film. Why?

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f Bourne can return, the good ship Enterprise in “Star Trek Beyond” (PG-13) certainly can, too, with director Justin Lin at the helm. Chris Pine is Captain Kirk, Zachary Quinto is Spock; you probably know the others. Frankly, it took too long for something significant to happen in the film. If they didn’t have a real monster of a villain in Idris Elba as Krall (yes,

The first hour of “Jason Bourne” seemed to be devoted to trying to build a reason for having the usual running and gunning which we have associated with this series of films.

The CIA Director (Tommy Lee Jones) has hired an assassin to take out Bourne (Vincent Cassel), but the CIA’s Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles) thinks Bourne is worth keeping. And, so, Captain Kirk leads the attack on the enemies of peace in we have more running and Justin Lin’s “Star Trek Beyond. Photo: Broad Green Pictures. gunning. It all ends in the gunfight and car chase throughout Las that fine actor was under all the alien Vegas. I guess Monaco is too small makeup), the last hour of the film these days. Verdict: at least you won’t would not have been a success. An fall asleep. energetic alien named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella in clown- white makeup with stripes) was a pleasant surprise, too. The script and pacing could have been better.

Dr. Bob Blackwood, professor emeritus of the City Colleges of Chicago, co-authored with Dr. John Flynn the recently published book Everything I Know about Life I Learned from James Bond.

Blackwood lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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When playing bocce ball in your backyard or on an official court known as a pit, be sure to have a fellow player stand midfield to catch such foul throws and return them to the throwing player, lest the bocce course become a constant 25m sprint practice.

Playing a game of bocce ball among three families on the narrow strip of land alongside a neighbor’s house was quite enjoyable. Despite bocce usually being played on perfectly flat ground, our strip was irregular, indeed.

Seemingly straight shots would ricochet sharply to the right or fly way past the pallino into the bushes. This makes the game more fun, but others may prefer a more minigolf-like I can help. purism. While I’ve seen people roll their bocce balls like they were bowling, regulations state One-on-one lessons with they must be arched like a grenade, landing you and your devices in the legal zones. An interesting twist of Call or email Perry Piper strategy is that if you can manage to land your ball on the pallino and move its position 360-270-0608 or towards your team’s balls, you can win the perrypiper@hotmail.com round. However, if you ball lands before the pallino and then hits it, this counts as a foul shot and all balls must be reset to their previous positions. In a similar Cowlitz County but more lenient fashion, players can Commissioner District 1 knock opposing balls out of the way for quality of place & family wage jobs more points, as well.

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Bocce ball is a sport played by two competing teams, generally up to eight people and with at least two.

Team captains are chosen and after determining the starting player, generally by a game of rock, paper scissors or a coin toss, the pallino is thrown. A small golf like ball is thrown anywhere in the play area, from 25 to 50 ft beyond the throwing area and within the 13 ft wide course. Bocce’s object is to throw as many of your team’s larger balls as possible closest to the pallino. Starting in the 10 foot long throwing area and without stepping over the line, the starting team’s player hurdles the large, surprisingly heavy (

two pound) ball over the first 25 foot region and into the second, crossing the halfway point marker. Anything short of this point is considered a foul throw,. The player gets three attempts to cross the line without passing the final 70 foot marker before defaulting their turn to the opposing team.

Each team must throw four bocce balls.

The total number of game rounds must be odd, like 3,5,7 etc., and set before play starts. While teams generally alternate throwing each turn, if a team fails to get their ball closer to the pallino than the previous team, they may go again and even exhaust all balls if needed. Once all balls have been thrown, players may approach the pallino. Only one team scores per round. The team whose balls are closest to the pallino, up to two, may be counted as two points for that team.

If green team’s ball is closest, but blue team’s is right behind it, only green team scores and only with a single point.

After playing a few rounds and getting a feel for arching heavy balls, Bocce becomes a game of strategy, uniting friends and families alike — or dare I say it, dividing them — every time someone’s ball gets knocked out of the way.

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In the photo, four of the nine men wore hats, so we lined up with folks wearing hats in the same order. After the first shot was taken, different family members replaced the first group. Everybody got in on the fun.

Every day, the border guards stop him and go through the straw with a fine-toothed comb, searching for contraband. Finding nothing, they let him pass. This goes on for over a year. Finally, one of the border guards, frustrated beyond belief, sits the man down and grills him as to what he was smuggling across the border. At last, the man yields under the guard’s intense questioning.

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I was reminded of that joke at the recent reunion of the Beck side of Sue’s family. A cousin, Kelso resident Larry Hanks, became inspired by an old photograph he picked up at an antique store showing nine men in a line, all pushing wheelbarrows up a hill.

Larry — who, typical of the entire family, has an offbeat sense of humor — thought it would be fun to re-enact the photo, posing family members in the same configuration.

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